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"Honest Men": South Africa-teasing, porn-teasing, claustrophobic, confusing...but at least there are a lot of gay guys.

 

Honest Men on Prime Video has a shirtless hunk on the icon and the promo: "Unraveling family dynamics, Honest Men follows Colby's return home after his father....(probably his father's death: somebody is always returning home after the death of somebody).   The names of the cast members sound African (King David, Donta Hemsley, Tripp Ali), so it's probably set in South Africa, and we'll get some interesting citscapes of Johannesburg or Cape Town

 Scene 1: Closeup of a man's back. So far so good. Suburb at night, then Colby (King David) addresses the camera, talking about his friend named Andre when he was a kid, who had a violent, abusive father  but nevertless was "sexy as hell." While he speaks, the violent, abusive father disrobes behind him and steps into the shower.  Colby: "Don't judge me for what I'm about to do.  I was only 17."  He starts beating off while watching. Hey, a gay character!  I guess he meant that the father was "sexy as hell."

King David is very hard to research.  Even if you specify "King David" and "actor," you just get the many, many actors who have played the Biblical king: Russell Crowe, Daniel Craig, Clive Owen, Christian Bale (left), Michael Fassbender...

Scene 2: 4 years later: Closeup of Colby's hands as he opens the door, puts his keys on the counter.  This is very tight, claustrophobic.  Very tight,  very claustrophobic.  I'm thinking we're not going to see Constitution Hill in Johannesburg or the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. 

A lengthy scene of the guy changing clothes, with very tight closeups of part of his eye and his neck.  Then a butt shot but no dick.  At least we have nudity.  

After watching the scene several times, just to make sure that I'm being accurate, har har, I conclude that the guy we're watching is not Colby, but Mark, the Abusive Father (Donta Hensley).

More partial body bait and switch -- you think it's more Abusive Mark, but it's actually Colby as he checks his messages: Wait -- who has an answering machine in their house anymore?  This must be Dad's apartment.  

#1: Funeral home guy complementing him on his coffin choice: "Rest in peace with our great prices."   Har har

#2: Mark the Abusive Father.  He was doing some work on Colby's Dad's fridge, and wants to stop by Saturday night to finish the job.  Saturday night?  Really?  Sounds like there's more than one job you want to finish.

 Scene 3: Semi-body part closeups as Colby answers the door.  It's Mark the Abusive Father, dressed like a refrigerator repair guy in a porn movie.   He suggests that Colby is taking his death hard, but no, "He stopped existing long before he died."  Some people like staying home, dude.  They got their books, their music, their Grindr hookups....

Mark remembers at Colby and Andre's graduation, Colby stood up and yelled some shit about his Dad, who never forgave him. "Well, I hated him."

"That's weird -- my son Andre loved him."  You were abusive, buddy.  

Mark confesses that he hated his son, too:  the kid came into the world and ruined his life when he was 14 years old.  "But I changed."  "Too bad my dad didn't."  Got it, Andre and Colby, both with abusive dads and hate all the way down.

Hey, these guys both have American accents.  I'm starting to think that the South African names are just a tease

Scene 4: A young man in his underwear, feeling himself up, talking to himself about how "she" is going to be so impressed tonight that he'll get him some.  

Text from his mom: Tell your Dad about the graduation party. A flashback to the night of the graduation, where Colby yelled some stuff and Dad never forgave him?  So this is probably  Abusive Mark's son Andre.

Andre texts a tight closeup of his Dad's various body parts but instead of the grad party, it's "Submit J's grad fees before Friday."  Dad's body parts groan, hating his kid.   Wait -- Andre does not appear in this episode, and he's not named J.  This must be JTT (Tripp Ali).  A third kid with an abusive dad?

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Aaron Carter: The golden boy of the fall of 2000 comes out as bi, shows his d*ck, has a hard life. Brother Nick: "Hurts to love you."

Aaron Carter, the younger brother of Nick Carter of The Backstreet Boys, burst into teen idol fame with his debut album (entitled Aaron Carter, naturally), released in 1997, when he was just nine years old. It sold a million copies.  A second album, Aaron's Party: Come and Get It (2000), sold two million copies and peaked at #4 on the U.S. charts.  

To those who were young in the fall of 2000, songs like "Bounce," "Aaron's Party," and a highly risque version of "I Want Candy" became symbols of a golden age of innocence,  became an icon of the fall of 2000, along with "Who Let the Dogs Out," "Kryptonite," and "Dance with Me."

 

The sizzling star appeared as himself on Sabrina the Teenage Witch (2001) and Lizzie McGuire (2001), and started high-profile romances with Hilary Duff (Lizzie) and Lindsey Lohan (The Parent Trap).

New albums were released in 2001 and 2002, but in the post-911, War on Terror world, that golden age seemed impossibly naive, and Aaron's star faded.  He continued to tour and release new songs, but none of them charted.  Focusing on his acting, he played:

Harry (one of the daughter's boyfriends) on two episodes of 7th Heaven (2004)

A classmate of the live action Fat Albert (left, with Shedrach Taylor III as Rudy).

A Hannah Montana-like incognito popstar in Popstar (2005).  Former popstars David Cassidy and Leif Garrett (right) appeared.

Marty in I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006), with Jeff Garlin (soon to star in The Goldberg) as a man looking for someone to each cheese with.

Brian in College Fright Night (2014), about a vampire infestation at a college, with former teen stars Todd Bridges and Dustin Diamond in the cast.

Aaron's adult years were rough:

Monetary problems, with his parents squandering his income, sometimes forcefully.

His father firing a gun next to his ear, leaving him partially deaf.

Allegations of abuse from his sister Leslie and brother Nick, which led to a restraining order and an admission that on social media that he wanted to kill Nick's wife.

Frequent drug problems.

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John Wahlberg: Adult video star from Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, Vienna, Bursa, Las Vegas, and Wise

 

John Wahlberg appeared on one of my n*de celebrity websites, listed as "an actor." I figured he must be Mark Wahlberg's son, so I began the research.

Surprise: He only appeared in one movie, an adult video from the BelAmi Studios.

He's so incredibly hot, and I'm still wondering if he's Mark Wahlberg's son, so I continued the research.

There are two bios, on Facebook and BelAmi.  They have the same photos, they both say he's an actor/model, but the timelines are completely different. 

The Facebook timeline doesn't make sense:

1995: Left job as a Private Secretary at the Bistro Cafe at the Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas.  There's no such job.  The Bistro Cafe hires cooks and waiters.

1995: Left job as a front desk hotel clerk at a hotel in Bursa, Turkey.

Wait, were you working in Las Vegas and Bursa at the same time?  Or was it a summer-school thing?

2003: Graduated from high school in the U.S.  

So, were you ten years old when you left the Las Vegas/Bursa jobs, or did you graduate from high school at age 30?

2008: Graduated from the University of Virginia College at Wise, population 3,000, in the far western part of the state.  It's a small, isolated school, unlikely to draw anyone who doesn't live nearby.

He studied acting, modeling, and penyanyi (the Indonesian word for "singing"). 

That university has a music department, but does not teach specifically penyanyi.  Or is this guy Indonesian, and just means voice?

Left: A voice major at the 2020 Honors Recital.

Now he lives in Las Vegas, where he is a content creator for the Bree Gaming Channel.

The BelAmi timeline is more logical:

1993: Born in Hungary.  Real name Benjamin Der (try researching that on German-language websites).

2009: At age 16, photographed in front of a bong.

2011: At age 18, he answered an ad for BelAmi, and did a photo shoot before moving to the U.S.  His measurements: 6'0", 2 pounds (must be a mistake), 8.5 inches.

More details: He's gay, a top, hooks up with guys 7-8 times a week, and prefers the classic positions.   

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